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For once that's not the ONLY thing I'm concerned with here... As for my cup of tea, it's usually a bit more like coffee. Miles would have lumped me in with the critics who drink too much of it...

Joe Harriott - Swings High - (Cadillac reissue) w/ Pat Smythe, Coleridge Goode, Phil Seamen and the trumpeter Stu Hamer.

This is on ECM, right? Ratliff gave it a positive review in Sunday's NYT. Admittedly, recent Bley ECM's have left me cold.

Yawn.

I went to see her with the California Guitar Trio, with my parents, earlier this year. Not my cup of tea, though I can understand why a lot of people might enjoy...

Here's my opinion: Night of the Purple Moon Review on Bagatellen

Ah, that's an old joke!

Then: Teddy Charles - Tentet - (Atlantic orig black label) Now: Lee Konitz - Motion - (Verve, MGM but no deep groove)

Clementine? And his anthologizing is excellent! This is a great read so far, and having just done a breeze through of NY (first in several years), it really resonated. Unfortunately I wasn't able to meet up with any of our board members while there, but at least got to see the circus that the Bowery has become, even since 2003 when I was last there... Yeah, all those new buildings. Did you stop at DMG? DMG was solid - the CD selection is pretty astounding, at least for free music and avant-garde stuff. Apparently they are going to move and become an "appointment only" joint.

Clementine? And his anthologizing is excellent! This is a great read so far, and having just done a breeze through of NY (first in several years), it really resonated. Unfortunately I wasn't able to meet up with any of our board members while there, but at least got to see the circus that the Bowery has become, even since 2003 when I was last there...

Frank Lowe - Black Beings - (ESP orig) w/ Joseph Jarman, Rashied Sinan, Wm. Parker and The Wizard.

As I mentioned above, I really like this place. Their used jazz selection typically contains no gems, but they have some interesting new jazz vinyl. They have a great selection of rock (classic, alternative, punk, etc.) vinyl, including a nice 45 selection (new stuff mostly). Last time I was there I picked up a couple great funk compilations on CD. Very eclectic place and a great place to visit so long as your tastes extend beyond jazz. Yeah, rarely does good shit get past the new arrivals racks. Long ago I picked up a few West 63rd BNs for under $20 apiece, though I suspect their pricing scheme is a bit different now.

LMTFAO!

I don't know how it would've manifested itself, but I think Trane probably would have commercialized his music more greatly in some way. If I'm not mistaken, before he died he expressed regret at losing his audience. Of course, there's contradiction there because he also recorded some seriously out shit not long before his death. Still, I have to wonder... Here's my perspective. The idea of mass appeal, at this point, is fairly hard to stomach - other than obvious pop crap (= pap), music has become a highly nichified thing. "Real" jazz, as well as "real" rock and roll and other types of music, has a small, steady and cultured audience. It may not grow, but it shows no signs of disappearing entirely. The problem with a niche is that there are still a fairly large number of artists competing for a few gigs and a few record sales. But I think Wynton's pretty much entirely out of that picture.

Not a fan of Kloss's other Prestige records, but that one could be pretty good...

It's not at all surprising that Wynton is a millionaire. Maybe I run in a small, small piece of the music public - but I don't think Wynton is viewed anymore as "saving" jazz; rather, he's a commercial musical institution like the Stones and gets paid for it.

Just hop a freight into Lawrence and hit Love Garden, in between 8th and 9th on Massachussetts Avenue.

Wow, I thought Wino just dropped a speedball... jeez, what was she thinking? Suicide?

Have it, haven't spun it yet.

I know, but the sentiment was based on how much they "elevated" a session by their presence. Hard to judge...

...Ernie Henry, John Jenkins, C Sharpe... Anyway, sure, I don't know if Ambrose Jackson elevated any proceedings either, but he's for whatever reason a comforting character. Maybe Spaulding's that - for me - on many occasions, but hopefully more than that, too. I think he smokes on those Freddie Hubbard BNs (not as into the Atlantics, more 'cause of the music as a whole). Sure, it might've been a different story if John Gilmore or Wayne Shorter or Andrew White was in the picture instead, but we deal with what we've got. Nothing wrong with hoping for more (and I do, often), but you can't redo those sessions, either.

I just like him for who he is, nothing more and nothing less... not gonna belabor anybody else's disinterest in his work; I enjoy it as I do Carlos Ward, Dudu Pukwana, (some) Oliver Lake, Arthur Jones, Ronnie Beer, Claude Bernard, Claude Lawrence, Antonio Grippi, Frank Strozier, Byard Lancaster, Byron Allen, Tony Ortega, Gary Bartz... whom am I forgetting?

From the title of this thread, I wasn't sure whether he was referring to Arista-Freedom or just plain Freedom...

The recordings from the Up Over Jazz Cafe are also fine, on his Speetones label. I wrote the notes for volume two. Second for the Marge. Here's his website: Speetones Saw him uptown the other night and he sounded good. He's a really swell guy, too. James Spaulding interview at AAJ

Right next to what's left of the 99 copies of the original 10" Michael Garrick 'Moonscape' and straggler Charles Mingus Label UCLA 2LP sets. Those are far rarer than True Blue. Ditto Howard Riley's Discussions on Opportunity (the orig, that is) and hell, even the first two BRO records are pretty scarce... lotta things are pretty scarce these days, even with the proliferation of "rare" records on the internets. But hey, that's for another already-beat-to-death thread.